No one has the power to redefine marriage
No one has the power to redefine marriage
by Ned Piedmont
LifeSite News
HLIAmerica.org
June 12, 2012
It is not for federal judges to redefine marriage for us. When they do, it is tantamount to cultural suicide, and we should not be surprised at the cultural and social degradation sure to follow.
William Bennett writes in his book The De-Valuing of Society, "Our common culture ... embodies truths that most Americans can recognize and examine for themselves. These truths are passed down from generation to generation, transmitted in the family, in the classroom, and in our churches and synagogues." But the truths of our culture and the traditional American family are now being attacked and demagogued like never before in our history in the name of "tolerance" and "rights."
Granting homosexuals a newly created "right" to marry will have unimaginable detrimental effects on society. The fact that the federal courts have no constitutional authority to grant rights is only one aspect of the problem. They positively have no authority to define marriage for us.
It is really no surprise that it has come to this. After all, we have been given many such rulings by the courts in the past: no-fault divorce, abortion "rights," and nude dancing in public and burning the flag - the latter both defined as "free speech." This is what happens when the Constitution is understood to be a "living document."
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
by Ned Piedmont
LifeSite News
HLIAmerica.org
June 12, 2012
It is not for federal judges to redefine marriage for us. When they do, it is tantamount to cultural suicide, and we should not be surprised at the cultural and social degradation sure to follow.
William Bennett writes in his book The De-Valuing of Society, "Our common culture ... embodies truths that most Americans can recognize and examine for themselves. These truths are passed down from generation to generation, transmitted in the family, in the classroom, and in our churches and synagogues." But the truths of our culture and the traditional American family are now being attacked and demagogued like never before in our history in the name of "tolerance" and "rights."
Granting homosexuals a newly created "right" to marry will have unimaginable detrimental effects on society. The fact that the federal courts have no constitutional authority to grant rights is only one aspect of the problem. They positively have no authority to define marriage for us.
It is really no surprise that it has come to this. After all, we have been given many such rulings by the courts in the past: no-fault divorce, abortion "rights," and nude dancing in public and burning the flag - the latter both defined as "free speech." This is what happens when the Constitution is understood to be a "living document."
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
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